Ansible Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Ansible for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is Puppet, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Ansible and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Ansible are Salt, Chef, pyinfra and Terraform.

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  1. Puppet icon
     52 likes

    Puppet Data Center Automation Solution helps you save time, gain visibility into your server environment, and ensure consistency across your IT infrastructure.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  2. Salt icon
     48 likes

    Salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer and provision servers in a fast and efficient way.

    37 Salt alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  3. Chef icon
     31 likes

    Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built, then apply those descriptions to your servers.

    39 Chef alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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  4. pyinfra icon
     13 likes

    pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale. It can be used for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.

    9 pyinfra alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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  5. Terraform icon
     20 likes

    Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

    18 Terraform alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  6. Rudder icon
     27 likes

    Rudder is a solution for automating your IT infrastructure to ensure security, reliability and compliance of your systems, whatever the OS. Gain instant visibility of IT compliance and benefit from continuous remediation to ensure an environment well configured and secured.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise
    • Self-Hosted
    • CentOS
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
    • Raspberry Pi OS
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • Slackware
     
  7. OpenTofu icon
     6 likes

    OpenTofu is an OSS tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. OpenTofu can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  8. Pulumi icon
     12 likes

    Pulumi is a cloud development platform. Replace YAML and DSLs with pure code. Code, deploy, manage cloud apps to AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, using JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go.

    16 Pulumi alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Yoke icon
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    The Yoke Project is a set of tools for working with package management differently than the status quo. Where once only YAML and templates of YAML ruled the representation of Kubernetes resources and the packages thereof, we can now work with code and benefit from native control...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
  10. GruCloud icon
     2 likes

    GruCloud is a low/no-code infrastructure as a code tool. It can generate code from live infrastructure, and deploy resources to the cloud from code. Benefit from infrastructure as code without the hassle of manually authoring the infrastructure description.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Unimus icon
     5 likes

    Network automation, disaster recovery, change management and configuration auditing. Unimus is NCM software, extremely easy to deploy and use, providing a wide feature-set that will help you run your network.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. chezmoi icon
     9 likes

    Dotfiles manager through a version control system.

    13 chezmoi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • Mac
     
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